Clearly, the competition within the entire college system has increased due to covid. Way too many great players and not as many spots. I'm grateful my son found a spot since 90 velo seems to be dime a dozen now. Crazy. He's on the skinny side at 6" 4" 210lbs. So he needs another 15lbs of muscle to throw harder and stay on the mound in college, I think. I agree our strategy would never work for a position player - since they get recruited mostly on hitting, and need travel level pitchers coming at them. But I do believe with so much competition now, players need to be very strategic if they want to get recruited and actually play on a college team. I think my son would be sitting for two years if he went with one of his mid-D1 offer. The D3 coach was all over him so we're hoping "go where you're loved" plays out at this school. We'll see.